Q: Did Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, the band from "The Muppet Show," ever record an album? | TV Tabloid Q&A Q: Did Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, the band from "The Muppet Show," ever record an album? Adam Thomlison / TV Media Oddly enough, they did not. The Muppets have released a total of 26 albums, starting with the soundtrack to "The Frog Prince," a TV special aired in 1971, but never a dedicated Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem release. Odd since that band became a sort of symbol of Muppet music after its introduction on "The Muppet Show" in 1976. They served as the house band on the iconic variety series and regularly performed alongside the huge music stars who appeared. Though they never got a record of their own, many of the Muppet albums did feature the band, led by the fur-hat-wearing, gold-tooth-smiling leader Dr. Teeth (said to be modeled after '70s blues rocker Dr. John).

Their first recorded appearance is on the 1977 "Muppet Show" album, simply a compilation of songs from the show, whereon they performed the torch standard "Tenderly." They appeared on eight Muppet albums, most recently 2006's "A Red and Green Christmas," performing the modern holiday standards "'Zat You, Santa Claus?" and "Run, Run Rudolph." The band appeared in the Muppet movies as well, but only showed up on one of the soundtracks -- doing "Can You Picture That?" from the original 1979 film, "The Muppet Movie." Dr. Teeth appears solo (without the Electric Mayhem) on the "Muppets Take Manhattan" soundtrack. Interestingly enough, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem's most famous song isn't even theirs. Most people credit the oft-recorded Muppet classic "Mahna Mahna" song to the band, but it was actually performed (repeatedly) by the aptly named character Mahna Mahna. Doing that song, a running bit on the long-running show, was his only job. The official members of the band were Dr. Teeth, Sgt.

Floyd Pepper (an homage to both the band Pink Floyd and the Beatles classic Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band), the flower-childish Janice (named after '60s songstress Janis Joplin), sax player Zoot (named for real-life saxophonist Zoot Sims), and the most famous member of all, their drummer Animal. DVN61: Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem source: Wikipedia Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem is a Muppet rock band of The Muppet Show. Following The Muppet Show, they appeared in various Muppet movies and television specials, and have also recorded album tracks. Dr. Teeth and Animal were designed by Jim Henson, while the rest of the original band members were designed by Michael K. Frith. The band consists of Dr. Teeth on vocals and keyboards, Animal on drums, Sgt. Floyd Pepper on bass guitar, Janice on guitar, and Zoot on saxophone. In season five of the show, Lips joined the band on trumpet.

Animal, Floyd and Zoot also played in the Muppet Show pit band, performing the opening and closing themes and underscoring most of the Muppet Show performances. Lips and occasionally Janice appeared in the orchestra in later episodes. Though Lips made some appearances with the group after The Muppet Show ended production, the group later reverted to its original line-up. Also, the original pilot episode featured "Jim", a Muppet caricature of Jim Henson on banjo. The band's first film role was performing the song "Can You Picture That?" in The Muppet Movie. They also performed "Saturday Night Life" and participated in "The Happiness Hotel" in The Great Muppet Caper, and performed "Jingle Bell Rock" in A Muppet Family Christmas. They appeared in The Muppets Take Manhattan (sans Lips), where Dr. Teeth sang "You Can't Take No For An Answer". Following the deaths of two of the group's puppeteers, Jim Henson (Dr. Teeth), and Richard Hunt (Janice), they were limited to brief instrumental background music for years. However, Dr.

Teeth and The Electric Mayhem backed Miss Piggy for a song in The Muppets' Wizard of Oz and performed alongside Miley Cyrus in the Studio DC: Almost Live television special. More recently, they appeared on the YouTube channel as part of the 2009 parody cover of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" in which many Muppet characters took part. An Electric Mayhem "survive" tour, with animatronic versions of the puppets, and rock band My Morning Jacket performing the characters, was proposed by The Walt Disney Company, but ultimately abandoned. Members Dr. Teeth Dr. Teeth is the keyboard player and gravelly-voiced leader of the band. He is green-skinned and red-haired with, as his name suggests, a large grinning mouth of teeth, including a gold tooth claimed to be fashioned by melting down his gold records. He maintains a scruffy beard, a fur vest, a striped shirt, and a floppy purple top hat. He has arms so long that additional puppeteers are required to guide them; this design enabled Henson to work the Dr. Teeth puppet while another performer acted as Dr. Teeth's 'hands' in order to play the keyboard.

His introductory lines in The Muppet Movie were: "Golden teeth and golden tones, welcome to my presence." He often misuses long words and mangles verb conjugation. Jim Henson originally performed him, and based the character on musician Dr. John. Dr. Teeth only sings lead vocals on the second Muppet pilot and during the first season and these songs were only written before Rowlf had become firmly established as the regular Muppet pianist. Later performances mostly feature lead vocals by Floyd or Janice and only a few featured Dr. Teeth. His speaking roles got even smaller after his performer Jim Henson's death; an exception was the 1991 Muppets stage show "Muppets on Location: Days of Swine and Roses", the voice being performed by John Kennedy. He performed Dr. Teeth from 1991 to 2003, but made only very brief appearances, with very little dialogue, some examples being the 1999 film Muppets from Space, and once in the music video for the We Are Family charity song in 2002.

Bill Barretta took over the role beginning with The Muppets' Wizard of Oz so that Kennedy could start performing Floyd instead following the retirement of Jerry Nelson, Floyd's original performer (although Matt Vogel later assumed the role of Floyd, as well as most of Nelson's primary Muppet characters). Dr. Teeth's first major speaking role since Henson's death was in Statler and Waldorf's very own show, Statler and Waldorf: From the Balcony, where Victor Yerrid performed him. Despite being the band leader, Dr. Teeth is never featured in the regular orchestra playing at The Muppet Show like the rest of the group. Instead, Rowlf plays the piano in the orchestra pit. Jim Henson once said that Dr. Teeth was one of the more difficult characters to play due to the harshness of the character's voice. Interestingly enough, Dr. Teeth and Rowlf are remarkably similar in voice, with Rowlf's being less gravelly, but still recognizable as being very similar to Dr. Teeth.

Animal Animal is the primitive wild man, drummer, and the most famous member of the band, being the only member to have appeared in every feature film and the only member in the regular cast of the Muppet Babies spin-off cartoon. He is named for his wild behavior and drumming. Some speculate the character is based on either Keith Moon,or Levon Helm while others have suggested Mick Fleetwood. In the April 8, 2002, episode of Inside the Actors Studio, Billy Joel claimed that Liberty DeVitto was the inspiration for The Muppets character Animal, but most others say there is no evidence he was based on anyone. Frank Oz operated Animal from his first appearance until 1999; in 2002 newcomer Eric Jacobson took over. In Muppet Babies he was voiced by Howie Mandel (1984–1985) and Dave Coulier (1986–1991). Animal was also played by Kevin Clash in Muppets Tonight and by Bill Barretta in Muppetfest.

Animal's drumming was performed by British jazz and big band drummer Ronnie Verrell.[5] His first appearance was in the original pilot, "Sex and Violence!", and he has had numerous other appearances on television, in advertising, and even on a U.S. postage stamp. Sgt. Floyd Pepper Sgt. Floyd Pepper is the bass player. A laid back "hipster" with a pink body and long orange hair, he usually wore a green army cap, or sometimes, while in the pit, a slightly fancier cap of stiffer, glittery material, and a red uniform with epaulets and ornate gold braid on the buttons. His name refers both to Pink Floyd and to the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. His jacket is a clear visual reference to the album. He also plays his bass left-handed, like Paul McCartney. The character was played and voiced by Jerry Nelson until 2004. At this time, Nelson retired from performing most of his characters, citing health reasons, and John Kennedy took over the role, beginning with The Muppets' Wizard of Oz.

However, Nelson performed Floyd's voice (though not the puppetry) one more time for Studio DC: Almost Live, Matt Vogel took over in A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa. Floyd is the most cynical member of the band and perhaps of the entire cast; in several episodes, he observes his fellow Muppet Show performers' backstage antics and pratfalls with great amusement and is not above outright laughing at them. A battle of the egos occurs whenever he and Miss Piggy are on screen together as he loves to poke fun at her airs and graces. He's also somewhat arrogant, referring to himself in a Muppet Magazine article as "one real cool dude" and during The Muppet Show (season 1 episode 23) he says to Kermit: "Kermit, you are talking to Floyd Pepper! The hippest of the hip! I mean I have a room for life at the home of the chronically groovy!". His pink color is a little insider joke, and a reference - he is a Pink Floyd. He first appeared in The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence.

He appears backstage more often than the other band members, presumably because Jerry Nelson was the muppeteer least often preoccupied with performing other characters backstage. Although Dr. Teeth is the leader, Floyd is the one who sings lead most often. Some of the songs he sang on The Muppet Show include: "New York State of Mind", "Ain't Misbehavin'", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover". He has a close relationship with Janice, and is Animal's handler, and in books like The Case of The Missing Mother, by James Howe, Animal is practically Floyd's pet. Floyd claims to consider himself an excellent songwriter but, with no apparent contradiction, admits that everyone hates his music. Not that he blames them. "If I didn't know I was a genius," he once declared, "I wouldn't listen to the trash I write." Janice Janice is a lead guitar player. She has blond hair, big eyelashes and lips, and usually wears a brown hat with a turquoise gem and a feather. Though she regularly performed vocals, she actually only sang lead a couple of times on the show.

She also acted in sketches periodically, most notably as wisecracking Nurse Janice in 'Veterinarian's Hospital', a recurring parody of medical dramas. Her name is an homage to Janis Joplin. Janice is the band's lead guitar player, and she plays left-handed. Her favourite guitar is a Gibson Les Paul with cherry sunburst colour scheme. This flower girl was involved with Zoot in the first season of The Muppet Show, but paired up with Floyd Pepper at the start of season two. Janice was performed by Eren Ozker during the first season of The Muppet Show (without the valley-girl voice), then she was performed by Richard Hunt until his death in 1992. Due to the lack of female Muppeteers, Janice has, since Ozker's departure, consistently been played by a man. Muppet characters are frequently paired together based on how well puppeteers perform as a team. Richard Hunt and Jerry Nelson had established themselves as a team prior to The Muppet Show. Therefore, the change in Janice's performer may have been the reason for her relationship shifting from Zoot to Floyd.

After Hunt's death, her character was faded back to brief non-speaking background appearances until the 2002 It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, in which she was performed by Brian Henson. In The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, she was performed by Tyler Bunch. Her most recent performer is David Rudman, who first performed her in Studio DC: Almost Live. Rudman has also taken over for Scooter, as well as Janice, thus adding another two of Richard Hunt's characters to his own Muppet characters. Matt Vogel also performed Scooter and Janice's voices in the video games Muppet RaceMania and Muppet Party Cruise. A running gag in some Muppet movies was that, during a scene where several characters were excitedly talking at once, and someone called for silence, Janice would be the last one still talking, on a topic with no apparent connection to the situation. In The Muppets Take Manhattan: "So I told him 'Look, buddy, I don't take my clothes off for anybody, even if it is artistic,' and... Oh". Another example from The Great Muppet Caper, she says: "Look, Mother. It's my life. OK.

So if I want to live on a beach and walk around naked... Oh". In season 5 episode 3, Janice and Sgt. Floyd Pepper sing The Beatles song "Blackbird". Janice is the only member of the band apart from Animal to have appeared on the animated series Muppet Babies. In her single appearance she was portrayed as slightly older than the main characters, and able to read. She was voiced by Dave Coulier, who regularly voiced baby versions of Animal, Bunsen and Bean Bunny. Zoot Zoot is a green (sometimes blue), balding saxophone player with dark glasses and a high-crowned blue felt hat, and was generally a laid-back fellow of few words. His name refers to the 20th century saxophonist Zoot Sims and per designer Bonnie Erickson, is modeled after Latin jazz artist Gato Barbieri. He is performed by Dave Goelz. He was conceived as a burned-out, depressed 50-year old musician, but according to Goelz, when the role was assigned to him, he did not know how to perform that type of character. He therefore made the character mainly communicate through his playing rather than by speaking.

Oddly enough, Zoot spoke much more in the first season, where he was often seen dancing with Janice in the "At the Dance" sketches. Goelz stated that he tried to give most of Zoot's lines away to other characters, particularly Floyd. Floyd's performer Jerry Nelson was not performing full-time in the first season, which may explain Zoot originally having more dialogue. Zoot's claim to fame was playing the final off-key note to the end theme of the show; he then looks into his saxophone with a bewildered expression, checks his music, gives a satisfied nod, looks around at the other musicians and gives the same nod. Curiously, the note played is the lowest note on the baritone saxophone, and most of Zoot's other playing has the sound of a tenor saxophone, while his instrument appears to be an alto.[citation needed] In A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa, it's revealed that he celebrates Hanukkah. Lips Lips, performed by Steve Whitmire, joined the Electric Mayhem for several numbers in the later episodes of the series, playing the trumpet. His name naturally refers to the fact that trumpet players use their lips to play.

He has a yellow Afro, goatee, and a permanent squint. His appearances on the Muppet Show were few and far between, and when he did appear in the later episodes or movies, he rarely did anything besides play the trumpet. One of his few speaking appearances was in the Shirley Bassey episode, where he sang a line of "Barnyard Boogie". He was mainly created so that Whitmire could have a character to perform in the band. His lack of character development was apparently due to Whitmire's uncertainty about performing Lips. He was less experienced as a puppeteer at the time, and wanted to use a voice like Louis Armstrong but was afraid of offending African-Americans. After The Muppet Christmas Carol, he was never seen at all until the NBC special Christmas in Rockefeller Center. He was also seen again in the newest movie, The Muppets. Parody. In an episode of Adult Swim's Robot Chicken (Season 1, Episode 4), Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem were in a fake VH1 Behind The Music sketch detailing the band's activities after The Muppet Show. It shows Dr.

Teeth earning a living as a piano teacher, and claims that no one has seen Zoot since he was arrested in Japan for possessing a suitcase filled with thirty-seven pounds of hash - which is a parody of the 1980 Paul McCartney marijuana bust. Also, in a fake episode of The Howard Stern Show, Janice reveals that Tommy Lee gave her Hepatitis C and that she only has 5 years to live (referencing similar claims made by actress Pamela Anderson); when Stern ignores her distress and asks if Janice will show him her breasts, she angrily refuses. Finally, a possible comeback for the Electric Mayhem—a performance on Star Search—ends in tragedy when Animal has to be put down for a vicious attack on host Ed McMahon. The sketch ends with Floyd sadly stating that a reunion of the Electric Mayhem is impossible without Animal and Zoot, as Dr. Teeth plays a piano duet with Rowlf the Dog and a sickly Janice coughs in the background No comments: Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem | Muppet Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Dr.

Teeth and the Electric Mayhem 31,245pages on The Electric Mayhem (from top to bottom): Animal, Dr. Teeth, Floyd, Janice, and Zoot. The Electric Mayhem in 2011. Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem are the house band on The Muppet Show . They mostly stick to rock music, but they're capable of playing other styles, including jazz and (unwillingly) classical. Although Dr. Teeth is the leader, he is not the only one to provide lead vocals. Floyd Pepper is often a lead singer on songs, and Janice is lead singer on a handful of songs. They drive around in a brightly-painted bus with psychedelic swirls and colors. In an edition of Ask Henson.com , Karen Falk responded to a question about the origins of the Mayhem band: “ Music was always an important part of Jim Henson's work. He had a strong interest in all types and had an eclectic record library. When he began writing proposals and creating concepts for The Muppet Show in the late 1960s, they always included a house band that was to appear in each episode.

At that time, Jim had a strong interest in the counter-culture movement (as evidenced by his experimental film Youth '68 ) and sought to reflect that in the composition of the band. One proposal from about 1970 says that the band would, "...do songs like "Sunshine" from Hair . In fact, they are all dressed to out-hair the Hair cast." The Electric Mayhem as we know it first appeared in 1975 on the Muppet Show pilot Sex and Violence . A page of ideas for the show written by Jim describes the band this way: "Rock act - far-out, elaborate weird equipment, big amps...". ” Contents Before Sesame Street and Electric Mayhem, a Crude Kermit Lip Synced Pop Standards | Collectors Weekly Before Sesame Street and Electric Mayhem, a Crude Kermit Lip Synced Pop Standards By Ben Marks — November 9th, 2011 When “The Muppets” storms the world’s multiplexes this holiday season, there will no doubt be lots of little kids who, thanks to “Sesame Street,” will associate the wide-mouthed cloth puppets with learning to count to 10 and reciting their ABCs.

But for many of their Gen-X parents and Baby Boomer grandparents, “The Muppets” will conjure school lunch boxes , flannel pajamas, and brightly colored board games , all inspired by “The Muppets Show,” a variety-style hour of family-friendly TV that aired between 1976 and 1981. With the release of the first Muppets feature film in a dozen years, it may seem like Muppet fever is about to grip us again, but according to Dwight Blocker Bowers , curator of Entertainment History Collections at the Smithsonian , the popularity of Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, and the rest of the Muppets gang has never waned, at least if the parades of Smithsonian visitors filing past the fabled institution’s Muppets are any indication. “For a while we displayed the ‘Sesame Street’ Kermit from 1969 alongside his first incarnation in ‘Sam and Friends’. I think people were very pleased to see where he started and what he became.” The cast of “Sam and Friends” now live in the Smithsonian.

“Sam and Friends?” Lots of people who love the Muppets can name their favorite “Muppets Show” guest stars, from Connie Stevens to Vincent Price, Lena Horne to Johnny Cash. They probably also know know the names of most members of the show’s house band, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem (Animal played drums, of course), and they may even be able to recall that in 1975, a motley collection of alien Muppets with names like Scred and King Ploobis were featured on the first season of “Saturday Night Live.” By all accounts, it was not a good fit. But it’s easy to forget that the earliest Muppets date to 1955, when a freshman at the University of Maryland named Jim Henson and his future wife, Jane Nebel, performed the first of 86 five-minute sketches of “Sam and Friends” on WRC-TV, the Washington, D.C. affiliate of NBC. The “Sesame Street” era Kermit has a crenellated collar and flipper feet.

Despite getting top billing, the star of “Sam and Friends” was not jug-eared Sam, whose round nose and bald head suggested Popeye. No, the show’s heart was an olive-drab, lizard-like creature named Kermit, who was sewn from one of Henson’s mother’s cast-off wool coats (that’s him, Sam, and a few other Friends at the top of this article, with Henson circa 1956 or 1957). The original Kermit had rounded feet instead of flippers, lacked Kermit’s classic crenellated collar, and viewed the world through a ping-pong ball that had been sliced in half and painted. Henson lined his creation with denim from an old pair of jeans . “When the song called for a female singer, Kermit just wore a wig.” Naturally historian Bowers is one of the biggest fans of that show, which debuted in black and white before switching to color. “They call me ‘Mr. Muppet’ around here,” Bowers says, with no small amount of pride. That’s because he and his colleagues spent five years trying to add the “Sam and Friends” Muppets to the institution’s collection.

“They’re creatures rather than specific beings, sort of like blobs of fabric,” he says of these prototypical Muppets. “Kermit had not graduated to being a frog yet.” If you want to compare Kermits, the Smithsonian has one of the “Sesame Street” versions, too. The reason why the Muppets are of interest to as lofty an institution as the Smithsonian, besides their obvious appeal to children and nostalgic adults visiting the museum, is that they represent innovation, and not just in the narrow field of puppetry. “Jim Henson used television in a different way from other television puppeteers of the 1950s,” Bowers says. “He always looked at television monitors that were mounted on the floor of the studio, so he could watch what he was doing while he was puppeteering. He did not just abstractly perform for anyone in the audience. Henson was fascinated with the technology and transmission of television.” Michael De Pippo’s retro Electric Mayhem posters created a sensation on the Internet. He also loved music. “Jim was very interested in the pop music of each era he worked in,” says Bowers.

“Many of those early ‘Sam and Friends’ episodes were just pantomimes to recordings. They would lip sync Keely Smith and Louis Prima. They would do performances with Rosemary Clooney singing ‘I’ve Grown Accustomed to His Face’ in the background. And when the song called for a female singer, Kermit just wore a wig.” Miss Piggy would have been so jealous. This Swarovski-studded Miss Piggy minaudiere was designed by jeweler to the stars, Kathrine Baumann. On “The Muppets Show,” the vehicle for Henson’s musical side was its house band, which, like Kermit, has its own legions of fans. For example, in anticipation of the new Muppets movie, a Toronto graphic designer named Michael De Pippo created gig posters for each of the original members of Electric Mayhem—Dr. Teeth (keyboards), Zoot (sax), Janice (guitar), Sgt. Floyd Pepper (bass), and Animal (drums).

Originally conceived as a fan’s “homage for my love of the Muppets,” the posters went viral on the Internet earlier this fall and were quickly licensed by Disney, which is publishing limited-edition, signed screenprints of each poster via Acme Archives . De Pippo says that some of the 18-by-24-inch posters, which advertise a show by the band at The Muppet Theatre on March 19th, 1975, the air date of “The Muppet Show” pilot, should be ready in time for the release of “The Muppets” over Thanksgiving weekend. An original lunch box from 1976, the first year of “The Muppet Show.” As for fans of Kermit, whose numbers definitely include Bowers, they can feed their passion for the friendly frog with those classic 1970s lunch boxes, as well as action figures and even U.S. postage stamps . “I’m partial to the first Kermit,” admits Bowers, “because it was in development at that time.

People who visit the Smithsonian love the ‘Sesame Street’ Kermit because that’s the one they know, but I have an affinity for that first Kermit and his quizzical look. Kermit’s expression speaks volumes; he always looks slightly skeptical of everything. We’re supposed to take him at face value, but he doesn’t necessarily look at the world that way.” Dr. Teeth | Muppet Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Dr. Teeth at the Smithsonian Dr. Teeth with Vicki on The Jim Henson Hour Dr. Teeth is the leader of the Electric Mayhem , the house band on The Muppet Show . Originally performed by Jim Henson , Dr. Teeth plays the keyboard and is also the lead singer of the band. He first appeared in The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence in 1975 and had a prominent role in Muppet productions until Henson's death in 1990. Dr.

Teeth is green-skinned and red-haired with, as his name suggests, a large grinning mouth of teeth, including one gold tooth on his upper jaw (which either he got from a voodoo princess named Tianna in Tupelo, MS [1] or is made from his gold records, melted, putting his money where his mouth is). [2] He wears a scruffy beard, a fur vest, a striped shirt, and a floppy purple top hat, though during the 1980s he switched to wearing a black leather vest. He has very long arms so additional puppeteers are required to guide them; this design enabled Henson to work the Teeth puppet while another performer acted as Teeth's "hands" in order to play the keyboard. Dr. Teeth had been less involved in Muppet productions due to Jim Henson's death. Since then, he was performed by John Kennedy in various projects until 2005, when the role was assumed by Bill Barretta .

He has also appeared in all of the Muppet movies, from his prominent roles in The Muppet Movie , The Great Muppet Caper , and The Muppets Take Manhattan , to his much smaller, often non-speaking roles in The Muppet Christmas Carol , Muppet Treasure Island , Muppets from Space , It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie , The Muppets' Wizard of Oz and A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa . He has since had more prominent speaking parts in the OK Go music video for " The Muppet Show Theme ", The Muppets and Muppets Most Wanted (particularly the extended cut). Contents [ show ] Trivia Dr. Teeth's look was inspired by jazz keyboardist Dr. John . Henson's original sketch for the character appears in the book Jim Henson's Designs and Doodles . Michael Frith then made a more refined, color sketch of the character, with the heading "Leon 'Doctor' Eltonjohn Dontshoot (the Piano Player)" -- adding the influence of Elton John (and possibly Leon Russell ) to the character. Dr. Teeth's creative vocabulary is a direct nod to Dr. John. While Dr.

Teeth usually has live hands, his hands were originally rod hands in The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence . The rod arms would occasionally be used on The Muppet Show . Also, the live hands version has five fingers on each hand , while the rod arm version has four on each hand. According to the inside cover for Rock Music with the Muppets, Dr. Teeth has his name because he's never had a cavity. In the Sesame Street " Monsterpiece Theater " sketch spoofing Upstairs, Downstairs , a picture of Dr. Teeth can be seen at the top of the staircase that Grover climbs. Casting History Primary Performers Bill Barretta - The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005) to Present Other Performers The Muppet Show: Dr Teeth & The Electric Mayhem - "Don't Blame The Dynamite" - YouTube The Muppet Show: Dr Teeth & The Electric Mayhem - "Don't Blame The Dynamite" Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now.

Please try again later. Uploaded on Apr 1, 2009 The Muppet Show, Season Two, Episode 35 with Dom DeLuise. Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem sing "Don't Blame the Dynamite." Category dr teeth and the electric mayhem : definition of dr teeth and the electric mayhem and synonyms of dr teeth and the electric mayhem (English) This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (May 2007) Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem is the name of a Muppet rock band of The Muppet Show . Following The Muppet Show, they appeared in various Muppet movies and television specials, and have also recorded album tracks. Dr. Teeth and Animal were designed by Jim Henson , while the rest of the original band members were designed by Michael K. Frith . The band consists of Dr. Teeth on vocals and keyboards , Animal on drums , Sgt. Floyd Pepper on bass guitar , Janice on guitar , and Zoot on saxophone . In season five of the show, Lips joined the band on trumpet .

Animal, Floyd and Zoot also played in the Muppet Show pit band, performing the opening and closing themes and underscoring most of the Muppet Show performances. Lips and occasionally Janice appeared in the orchestra in later episodes. Though Lips made some appearances with the group after The Muppet Show ended production, the group later reverted to its original line-up. Also, the original pilot episode featured "Jim", a Muppet caricature of Jim Henson on banjo . The band's first film role was performing the song "Can You Picture That?" in The Muppet Movie . They also performed "Night Life" and participated in "Happiness Hotel" in The Great Muppet Caper , and performed " Jingle Bell Rock " in A Muppet Family Christmas . They appeared in The Muppets Take Manhattan (sans Lips), where Dr. Teeth sang "You Can't Take No For An Answer". Following the deaths of two of the group's puppeteers, they were limited to brief instrumental background music for years. However, Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem backed Miss Piggy for a song in The Muppets' Wizard of Oz and performed alongside Miley Cyrus in the Studio DC: Almost Live television special.

More recently, they appeared on the YouTube channel as part of the 2009 parody cover of Queen 's " Bohemian Rhapsody " that many Muppet characters took part in. An Electric Mayhem "live" tour, with animatronic versions of the puppets, and rock band My Morning Jacket performing the characters, was proposed by The Walt Disney Company , but ultimately abandoned. [1] Contents Members Dr. Teeth Dr. Teeth is the keyboard player and gravelly-voiced leader of the band. He is green-skinned and red-haired with, as his name suggests, a large grinning mouth of teeth, including a gold tooth claimed to be fashioned by melting down his gold records. He maintains a scruffy beard, a fur vest, a striped shirt, and a floppy purple top hat. He has arms so long that additional puppeteers are required to guide them; this design enabled Henson to work the Dr. Teeth puppet while another performer acted as Dr. Teeth's 'hands' in order to play the keyboard. His introductory lines in The Muppet Movie were: "Golden teeth and golden tones, welcome to my presence." He often misuses long words and mangles verb conjugation.

Jim Henson originally performed him, and based the character on the musician Dr. John .[ citation needed ] Dr. Teeth only sings lead vocals on the second Muppet pilot and during the first season and these songs were only written before Rowlf had become firmly established as the regular Muppet pianist. Later performances mostly feature lead vocals by Floyd or Janice and only a few featured Dr. Teeth. His speaking roles got even smaller after his performer Jim Henson's death; an exception was the 1991 Muppets stage show "Muppets on Location: Days of Swine and Roses", the voice being performed by John Kennedy . He performed Dr. Teeth from 1991 to 2003, but made only very brief appearances, with very little dialogue, some examples being the 1999 film Muppets from Space , and once in the music video for the We Are Family charity song in 2002.

Bill Barretta took over the role beginning with The Muppets' Wizard of Oz so that Kennedy could start performing Floyd instead following the retirement of Jerry Nelson , Floyd's original performer (although Matt Vogel later assumed the role of Floyd, as well as most of Nelson's primary Muppet characters). Dr. Teeth's first major speaking role since Henson's death was in Statler and Waldorf 's very own show, Statler and Waldorf: From the Balcony , where Victor Yerrid performed him. Despite being the band leader, Dr. Teeth is never featured in the regular orchestra playing at The Muppet Show like the rest of the group. Instead, Rowlf plays the piano in the orchestra pit. Jim Henson once said that Dr. Teeth was one of the more difficult characters to play due to the harshness of the character's voice. Interestingly enough, Dr. Teeth and Rowlf are remarkably similar in voice, with Rowlf's being less gravelly, but still recognizable as being very similar to Dr. Teeth.

Animal Main article: Animal (Muppet) Animal is the primitive wild man, drummer , and the most famous member of the band, being the only member to have appeared in every feature film and the only member in the regular cast of the Muppet Babies spin-off cartoon. He is named for his wild behavior and drumming. Some speculate the character is based on either Keith Moon ,or Levon Helm [2] [3] while others have suggested Mick Fleetwood . [4] In the April 8, 2002, episode of Inside the Actors Studio, Billy Joel claimed that Liberty DeVitto was the inspiration for The Muppets character Animal, but most others say there is no evidence he was based on anyone. [5] [6] Frank Oz operated Animal from his first appearance until 1999; in 2002 newcomer Eric Jacobson took over. In Muppet Babies he was voiced by Howie Mandel (1984–1985) and Dave Coulier (1986–1991). Animal was also played by Kevin Clash in Muppets Tonight and by Bill Barretta in Muppetfest .

Animal's drumming was performed by British jazz and big band drummer Ronnie Verrell . [5] His first appearance was in the original pilot, "Sex and Violence!", and he has had numerous other appearances on television, in advertising, and even on a U.S. postage stamp. Sgt. Floyd Pepper Sgt. Floyd Pepper is the bass player. A laid back "hipster" with a pink body and long orange hair, he usually wore a green army cap, or sometimes, while in the pit, a slightly fancier cap of stiffer, glittery material, and a red uniform with epaulets and ornate gold braid on the buttons. His name refers both to Pink Floyd and to the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band . His jacket is a clear visual reference to the album[ citation needed ]. He also plays his bass left-handed, like Paul McCartney . The character was played and voiced by Jerry Nelson until 2004. At this time, Nelson retired from performing most of his characters, citing health reasons, and John Kennedy took over the role, beginning with The Muppets' Wizard of Oz .

However, Nelson performed Floyd's voice (though not the puppetry) one more time for Studio DC: Almost Live , Matt Vogel took over in A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa . Floyd is the most cynical member of the band and perhaps of the entire cast; in several episodes, he observes his fellow Muppet Show performers' backstage antics and pratfalls with great amusement and is not above outright laughing at them. A battle of the egos occurs whenever he and Miss Piggy are on screen together as he loves to poke fun at her airs and graces. He's also somewhat arrogant, referring to himself in a Muppet Magazine article as "one real cool dude" and during The Muppet Show (season 1 episode 23) he says to Kermit: "Kermit, you are talking to Floyd Pepper! The hippest of the hip! I mean I have a room for life at the home of the chronically groovy!". His pink color is a little insider joke, and a reference - he is a Pink Floyd . He first appeared in The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence .

He appears backstage more often than the other band members, presumably because Jerry Nelson was the muppeteer least often preoccupied with performing other characters backstage. Although Dr. Teeth is the leader, Floyd is the one who sings lead most often. Some of the songs he sang on The Muppet Show include: " New York State of Mind ", " Ain't Misbehavin' ", " While My Guitar Gently Weeps " and " 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover ". He has a close relationship with Janice, and is Animal's handler, and in books like The Case of The Missing Mother , by James Howe , Animal is practically Floyd's pet. Floyd claims to consider himself an excellent songwriter but, with no apparent contradiction, admits that everyone hates his music. Not that he blames them. "If I didn't know I was a genius," he once declared, "I wouldn't listen to the trash I write." Janice Janice is a lead guitar player. She has blond hair, big eyelashes and lips, and usually wears a brown hat with a turquoise gem and a feather. Though she regularly performed vocals, she actually only sang lead a couple of times on the show.

She also acted in sketches periodically, most notably as wisecracking Nurse Janice in 'Veterinarian's Hospital', a recurring parody of medical dramas. Her name is an homage to Janis Joplin . Janice is the band's Lead Guitar player, and she played left-handed. Her favourite guitar is a left-handed Gibson Les Paul with cherry sunburst colour scheme. This flower girl was involved with Zoot in the first season of The Muppet Show, but paired up with Floyd Pepper at the start of season two. Janice was performed by Eren Ozker during the first season of The Muppet Show (without the valley-girl voice), then she was performed by Richard Hunt until his death in 1992. Due to the lack of female Muppeteers, Janice has, since Ozker's departure, consistently been played by a man. Muppet characters are frequently paired together based on how well puppeteers perform as a team. Richard Hunt and Jerry Nelson had established themselves as a team prior to The Muppet Show. Therefore, the change in Janice's performer may have been the reason for her relationship shifting from Zoot to Floyd.

After Hunt's death, her character was faded back to brief non-speaking background appearances until the 2002 It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie , in which she was performed by Brian Henson . In The Muppets' Wizard of Oz , she was performed by Tyler Bunch . Her most recent performer is David Rudman , who first performed her in Studio DC: Almost Live . Rudman has also taken over for Scooter, as well as Janice, thus adding another two of Richard Hunt's characters to his own Muppet characters. Matt Vogel also performed Scooter and Janice's voices in the video games Muppet RaceMania and Muppet Party Cruise. A running gag in some Muppet movies was that, during a scene where several characters were excitedly talking at once, and someone called for silence, Janice would be the last one still talking, on a topic with no apparent connection to the situation. In The Muppets Take Manhattan : "So I told him 'Look, buddy, I don't take my clothes off for anybody, even if it is artistic,' and... Oh". Another example from The Great Muppet Caper , she says: "Look, Mother. It's my life. OK.

So if I want to live on a beach and walk around naked... Oh". In season 5 episode 3, Janice and Sgt. Floyd Pepper sing The Beatles song Blackbird . Janice is the only member of the band apart from Animal to have appeared on the animated series Muppet Babies . In her single appearance she was portrayed as slightly older than the main characters, and able to read. She was voiced by Dave Coulier , who regularly voiced baby versions of Animal, Bunsen and Bean Bunny . Zoot Zoot is a green (sometimes blue), balding saxophone player with dark glasses and a high-crowned blue felt hat, and was generally a laid-back fellow of few words. His name refers to the 20th century saxophonist Zoot Sims and per designer Bonnie Erickson, is modeled after Latin jazz artist Gato Barbieri . He is performed by Dave Goelz . He was conceived as a burned-out, depressed 50-year old musician, but according to Goelz, when the role was assigned to him, he did not know how to perform that type of character. He therefore made the character mainly communicate through his playing rather than by speaking.

Oddly enough, Zoot spoke much more in the first season, where he was often seen dancing with Janice in the "At the Dance" sketches. Goelz stated that he tried to give most of Zoot's lines away to other characters, particularly Floyd. Floyd's performer Jerry Nelson was not performing full-time in the first season, which may explain Zoot originally having more dialogue. Zoot's claim to fame was playing the final off-key note to the end theme of the show; he then looks into his saxophone with a bewildered expression, checks his music, gives a satisfied nod, looks around at the other musicians and gives the same nod. Curiously, the note played is the lowest note on the baritone saxophone , and most of Zoot's other playing has the sound of a tenor saxophone , while his instrument appears to be an alto .[ citation needed ] In A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa , it's revealed that he celebrates Hanukkah . Lips Lips, performed by Steve Whitmire , joined the Electric Mayhem for several numbers in the later episodes of the series, playing the trumpet. His name naturally refers to the fact that trumpet players use their lips to play.

He has a yellow Afro, goatee, and a permanent squint. His appearances on the Muppet Show were few and far between, and when he did appear in the later episodes or movies, he rarely did anything besides play the trumpet. One of his few speaking appearances was in the Shirley Bassey episode, where he sang a line of " Barnyard Boogie ". He was mainly created so that Whitmire could have a character to perform in the band. His lack of character development was apparently due to Whitmire's uncertainty about performing Lips. He was less experienced as a puppeteer at the time, and wanted to use a voice like Louis Armstrong but was afraid of offending African-Americans . After The Muppet Christmas Carol , he was never seen at all until the NBC special Christmas in Rockefeller Center . He was also seen again in the newest movie, The Muppets . Parody In an episode of Adult Swim 's Robot Chicken (Season 1, Episode 4), Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem were in a fake VH1 Behind The Music sketch detailing the band's activities after The Muppet Show. It shows Dr.

Teeth earning a living as a piano teacher, and claims that no one has seen Zoot since he was arrested in Japan for possessing a suitcase filled with thirty-seven pounds of hash - which is a parody of the 1980 Paul McCartney marijuana bust. Also, in a fake episode of The Howard Stern Show , Janice reveals that Tommy Lee gave her Hepatitis C and that she only has 5 years to live (referencing similar claims made by actress Pamela Anderson ); when Stern ignores her distress and asks if Janice will show him her breasts, she angrily refuses. Finally, a possible comeback for the Electric Mayhem—a performance on Star Search —ends in tragedy when Animal has to be put down for a vicious attack on host Ed McMahon . The sketch ends with Floyd sadly stating that a reunion of the Electric Mayhem is impossible without Animal and Zoot, as Dr. Teeth plays a piano duet with Rowlf the Dog and a sickly Janice coughs in the background.

References The Muppets Go Hollywood (1979) The Muppets Go to the Movies (1981) The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show (1982) Hey, You're as Funny as Fozzie Bear (1988) Mother Goose Stories' (1988) Neat Stuff to Know & To Do (1988) Peek-A-Boo: A Big Surprise for Little People (1988) Sing-Along, Dance-Along, Do-Along (1988) Wow, You're a Cartoonist! (1988) Video games American Band - Grand Funk Railroad - YouTube American Band - Grand Funk Railroad Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Oct 4, 2011 Compilation of several classic television shows with American Band by Grand Funk Railroad.

TV shows include The Beverly Hillbillies(Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Nancy Kulp, Raymond Bailey), The Muppet Show(Connie Stevens, Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem), Married with Children(Christina Applegate, Amanda Bearse, David Faustino, Anthrax), The Monkees(Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork), Gilligan's Island(Dawn Wells, Tina Louise, Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Russell Johnson, Mosquitoes, Honey Bees ), Bewitched(Elizabeth Montgomery, Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) and The Munsters(Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis, The Standells). Category The Muppet Show (TV Series 1976–1981) - IMDb IMDb 17 January 2017 4:34 PM, UTC NEWS There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends.

Error Kermit the Frog and his friends struggle to put on a weekly variety show. Creator: There's no show today, almost; the theater is turned into a dance marathon hosted by Gonzo. 8.8 Danny Kaye finds his gig on the show rather discouraging considering Statler and Waldorf are sitting outside rather than see the guest star. 8.6 In honor of guest star Vincent Price, the show is filled with monsters, ghosts, vampires and spooky sketches. Meanwhile, a three-headed monster tries to audition for Kermit.

8.6 Florence Henderson, 'The Brady Bunch' Actress, Dead at 82 25 November 2016 6:10 AM, -08:00 | Rollingstone.com a list of 31 titles created 02 Jan 2013 a list of 48 titles created 24 Sep 2014 a list of 22 titles created 07 Jan 2016 a list of 22 titles created 11 months ago a list of 42 titles created 2 months ago Title: The Muppet Show (1976–1981) 8.5/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 4 Primetime Emmys. Another 8 wins & 25 nominations. See more awards » Videos Sesame Street (TV Series 1969) Animation | Comedy | Family On a special inner city street, the inhabitants, both human and puppet, teach preschool subjects with comedy, cartoons, games and songs.

Stars: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Caroll Spinney Kermit the Frog , Clifford and friends struggle to put on a weekly TV variety show. Stars: Dave Goelz, Kevin Clash, Jerry Nelson Kermit and his new found friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog-legs merchant is after Kermit. Director: James Frawley A curious young hand puppet named Oobi encourages logical thinking. Along with his little sister Uma, best friend Kako and grandfather Grampu, Oobi discovers the outside world in a new way each day. Stars: Tim Lagasse, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Noel MacNeal The adventures of the various inhabitants of an underground civilization. Stars: Karen Prell, Gerard Parkes, Kathryn Mullen Kermit and his friends go to New York to get their musical on Broadway only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated. Director: Frank Oz Kermit, Gonzo and Fozzie are reporters who travel to Britain to interview a rich victim of jewel thieves and help her along with her secretary, Miss Piggy. Director: Jim Henson Gonzo is contacted by his alien family through his breakfast cereal.

He is kidnapped and it's up to Kermit and the gang to rescue Gonzo and help reunite him with his long-lost family. Director: Tim Hill A Muppet fanatic with some help from his two human compatriots must regroup the Muppet gang to stop an avaricious oil mogul from taking down one of their precious life-longing treasures. Director: James Bobin The Muppets' twist on the classic tale. Director: Brian Henson While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick. Director: James Bobin The Muppets Valentine show was the first of the two specials for The Muppet Show. Valentine on ABC in 1974. Director: Jim Henson Edit Storyline Kermit the Frog is the manager of a cabaret-style theatre house, which invariably has more drama behind the stage than on it. He has to contend with wannabe-comedian bears, the smothering advances of Miss Piggy , crabby regular theatre patrons, homicidal chefs, livestock, not to mention making the weekly guest star feel welcome.

Written by Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au> 29 January 1976 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Die Muppet Show See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia In February 2003, Disney purchased The Jim Henson Workshop. The deal includes characters such as Fozzie Bear and Dave Goelz , as well as the Bear in the Big Blue House (1997) franchise. Sesame Street characters such as Big Bird and Elmo are not included in the acquisition, as they are owned separately by the Sesame Workshop. See more » Quotes Statler : What have you got for an opening act this time? A Chinese gorilla dancing ballet? Kermit : Cancel the opening number. Chinese Gorilla: Dong day do dai dai do... Steve Whitmire and Dave Goelz 's gags in the end credits vary. See more » Connections This show is not only BRILLIANT, it's GENIUS! 24 February 2004 | by Cini34 (Mainframe) – See all my reviews The Muppet Show is, by far, one of the best constructed variety shows out there.

Plus, it has all our favorite Muppet characters, and seriously, who can go wrong with the Muppets? This show is a perfect blend of song and dance, Muppet and guest star interaction, and just plain fun for the whole family. The humor in the show offers the perfect mix of adult jokes and gags that fly right over the heads of children, and laughs that both child and adult can enjoy. Jim Henson truly created a masterpiece with this show, not to mention his popular films and other spin-off shows. The Muppet Show also offers a wonderful glimpse of many of the stars of yesteryear (the mid- to late-1970s), many of whom still survive today. This show definitely needs to be picked up by one of the networks for syndication because, although it seems somewhat dated at times (not much, though, really) it's genuine entertainment value could boost any network's ratings. Deservedly so, I've given The Muppet Show a rating of 10 stars out of 10! 10 of 12 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes

Question: On which TV show did the band Electric Mayhem feature?
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